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Local school administrators are discussing strategies to continually improve academic performance after reviewing the results of the 2017 TELL (Teaching, Empowering, Leading and Learning) Kentucky Survey.

The Williamstown City Council passed their annual budget as well as a resolution to create a policy prohibiting tobacco in city parks during their June 20 meeting.
After the council briefly discussed and then passed the budget, Zachary Raney from the Northern Kentucky Health Department gave a presentation to the council detailing the risks of second-hand smoke and the benefits of a tobacco-free park policy. He noted that the surgeon general has commented that there is no risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke.

As physical conditions at the Grant County Detention Center continue to improve, Jailer Chris Hankins plans to hire more deputies so the jail can increase its state inmate count and collect more revenue from the state.

FRANKFORT - The Kentucky Division of Water (DOW) and the Kentucky Department for Public Health (DPH) are removing the Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) recreational public health watch for Boltz Lake in Grant County effective immediately.
Results from recent sampling by the Dept. for Environmental Protection indicate the levels of toxins occurring in the lake are now below the advisory threshold for recreating in the lake.

Few things can bring a hardened Marine like John Souder to tears.
But the day that his home burned to the ground and two of his four pet dogs were killed in a tragic fire, the most unlikely person was able to do just that; a 7-year old boy, who was offering Souder a helping hand during one of the darkest moments of his life.

Fugitive lawyer Eric C. Conn fled the country using a fake passport and help from someone overseas who has given him a job to support himself while on the lam, Conn told the Herald-Leader in an email exchange over the weekend.
Conn, who was once one of the top disability attorneys in the nation, flew to a country that does not have an agreement to extradite people wanted for crimes in the U.S., he told the newspaper.